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I got blocked too, and so was referring to the ancient Egyptian city. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Egypt
IIRC, Memphis, TN was named after the great city in Egypt and even has a Pyramid, although it may be a shopping center.
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Content moderation is trivially easy when your users pay for it or have skin in the game. Making accounts paid would immediately fix the problem as few people would want to risk losing real money. Content moderation only becomes a problem where your business model is "growth and engagement" and your revenue depends on your users generating as much content as possible.
If users are paying, you run into lawsuit territory when you try to censor them for their views. Not necessarily because you can't stop doing business with the person who you decide is an enemy of the people, but because you are still taking all the money of their followers and others who signed up to read their tweets. So accepting money would require a moderation policy that didn't change every other week but was c…
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There is no way to moderate the entire world. The sooner everyone alive accepts this, the better off we will be. The values of a Black lesbian female software developer who grew up in San Francisco and went to Stanford will never be compatible with the values of a Hispanic straight male Marine officer who grew up in San Antonio and went to Texas Christian University and has been deployed to 17 different countries. Ho…
However, they can and do exist on the same platforms. They can exist because both of them are going to HAVE to learn how to engage with one another, even though their existences are completely incompatible and utterly different. How are those two people's lives on social media incompatible? There's a million things they could have in common - a love of tacos, a band to talk about, a shared joke about a dumb celebrity…
In general it seems like moderating platforms with millions/billions of users is a fool's errand, but is required to be attempted due to the level of centralization we've ended up with. Regardless of how much of it is automated away via blackbox ML algorithms lacking transparency or via outsourcing to cheap labor that spends their days looking at terribly offensive and shocking content, the end result is going to hav…
There is no way to moderate the entire world. The sooner everyone alive accepts this, the better off we will be. The values of a Black lesbian female software developer who grew up in San Francisco and went to Stanford will never be compatible with the values of a Hispanic straight male Marine officer who grew up in San Antonio and went to Texas Christian University and has been deployed to 17 different countries. Ho…
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Why is moderation required on a platform like twitter? If somebody makes offensive tweets who forces you to view their page? If some group of people openly plot criminal activity why not let the civil authorities prosecute them for their crimes? I don't get the impulse to control free speech online. Offline you can say whatever you want in a public forum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxxDkAkclw4
Well if you give the address of the teenage daughter of you noisy neighbour doing parties all the time with a pic that say "come and take me", maybe you crossed a line that should stimulate moderation?
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They really didn't. And they certainly don't work now; just look at how completely overrun with spam Usenet is these days.
That's because all the humans moved to modern tools, but spam scales very easily.
Reminds me of The Hhitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > Belgium is the rudest word in the Universe, yet by a strange coincidence, also the name of a country on Earth. In the Secondary Phase of the radio series, it is stated as "completely banned in all parts of the Galaxy, except in one part, where they don't know what it means, and in serious screenplays.
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Why is moderation required on a platform like twitter? If somebody makes offensive tweets who forces you to view their page? If some group of people openly plot criminal activity why not let the civil authorities prosecute them for their crimes? I don't get the impulse to control free speech online. Offline you can say whatever you want in a public forum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxxDkAkclw4
Well if you give the address of the teenage daughter of you noisy neighbour doing parties all the time with a pic that say "come and take me", maybe you crossed a line that should stimulate moderation?
Yeah, can confirm. It does work. I don't suggest trying it, as unlocking your account requires phone no. and email verification... yikes.
I tried to create a Twitter account once. 5 minutes after creation it got suspended and unlocking required a phone no. Same goes for Facebook
Likely significant reduces the bounce rate compared to requiring a phone number while creating the account